The title is a quotation from Airey Neave and he had good cause to know after escaping from Colditz he was one of the many servicemen on the run in Occupied France whose only hope of escape lay in one of the evasion lines which ran via the Pyrenees to Spain and Gibraltar The author is the niece of the Greek couple who ran the 'Acropolis Line' and she tells the true story of these exceptionally brave people